Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-01-27
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State News Condensed.

The following are tic 3ew officers OF the
state sportsmen's association President
+. =. Holmes, Grand Rapids; secretary
Mark Norris. Grand Rapids; treasurer, n
A. Osgood, Bay City; director for four
years, A. l.. Lakey, Kalamazoo; delegates
to the June convention at Chicago, L. >.
Holmes, Mark Norris, Il. o. Lancaster, II.
Widdecomb and T.. Z. Nichols. The next
meeting will be held in Chicago on the
second Tuesday in January.
Rev. /. N. Elwood a prominent Metho-
dist minister and wel-known in the state
died in Flint on the 18th inst.
Henry Neinhouse, n young man 90 years
old, was instantly killed by a falling tree
at one of ID. p. Clay's lumber camps two
miles from Newaygo. His home was in
Muskegon and his body was taken there
for interment.
Mrs. Eber Adams. for nearly half q CEN
fury a resident of Adrian, is dead.
A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Kenne-
dy OF Meredith Clare county, accidentally
got to bottle of carbolic acid and drank
of it, causing his death.
A telegram from Dakota announces that
G. b. Buck and his son Herman OF Sturgis,
and Mr. Davis, at whose house they were
stopping, persisted in blizzard recently.
The Michigan state sportsmen's associa-
ton, in session in Lansing. elected the
following officers for the coming year;
Il
secretary, Mark Norris, Grand Rapids
treasurer, n. A. Osgood, Battle Greek !;
A. j.. Lakey, Kalamazoo, director for four
years. L. 5. Holmes, Mark Norris, +. o..
Lancaster and H. Widdicomb were chosen
representatives TO the national sportsmen's
congress, which is TO meet In chicago next
June.
Frank Hiscock is the republican nominee
for senator from New York.
Col. Black of Fort Wayne is mentioned
as the probable successor of Cen Hazen.
A rich vein of silver has been dis covered
in Bloomfield township, Essex county, NJ
The magnificent historical library of
President Andrew ID. White is to be given
to Cornell university. Mr.. White has been
80 years in collecting his library, and ex-
pended over Sl0O,0t0. The library EN-
braces 10000 volumes, 10000 pamphlets and
some manuscripts.
Wells. the brakeman arrested for havin q
caused the wreck at East Rio. Wis, in
October last, when Is lives were lost, has
been acquitted.
The funeral of four of the victims of the
Baltimore a. Ohio railroad disaster at Re-
public. Ohio, on the 4th inst, was held on
the 18th. Several thousand persons at
tended. The funeral was under masonic
auspices.
The Phoenix q Maricopa railway COM
pany are grading line of road through
the ella River Indian reservation in Ari-
zona without having obtained the neces-
sary consent from the Indians. The inte-
rior department has notified them that
unless they stop the military will be sent
to GUST them.
Tariff men want to put lumber and salt
on the free list.
Hon. S. S. Cox, who has been very i'll at
his home in Washington, is slowly m
proving.
The treasury department has decided
that no drawback can be allowed on the
expectation of imported bottles filled with
beer manufactured in the United States
from domestic materials.
The first national encampment of the
union veterans union was held in Wash
ington on the 18th inst.
The national board of trade held its an
nual meeting in Washington on the 10th
Bishop Cain of the African M. Z. church
Is dead at Washington.
Second Comptroller Maynard has al
lowed the claim of Watt Grayson, a Creek
indian, Tor S52Ooo Tor money proven to
have been stolen from him by white men.
The New York liquor dealers associa-
ton has failed to compromise with the
pool of brewers and have resolved TO boy
colt the beer sold by the pool. There are
but six brewers out of the pool, and as
they cannot begin to supply the demand
Deei ialuiuo Is eApecteu.
Several farmers In Galesburg Kalama-
zoo county, have just found out that they
have been swindled by Bohemian oat men
out of sums ranging from 5000 TO $500.
The swindlers cannot be found
Rev. l. N. Elwood, pastor of the Metho-
dist church of Flint, Is dead.
Henry Newhouse, a young man of 90
years old, was instantly killed by a falling
tree at one of ID. p. Clay's lumber camps
near Newaygo.
Ouartermaster-G General George A. Hart
has turned over to Gen. Sherman b. Da-
boil the office which he has held for the
last two years, and which he has filed with
marked ability and credit. The new quar-
termaster-general found the affairs of the
office in a most excellent condition, all
Indebtedness paid up to January, 1887, and
n fund of nearly $1,000 was turned over TO
him. The state troops have been constant
in their praise OF Gen. Harris administra-
ton.
torney at London, Ont, assuring him that
DR.. Wier, IL extradi.ed, would probably
have to be tried outside Oscoda or Au
Sable, as the case has been so notorious
there that no jury of unbiased opinions
could be found. The person suggests Lam
sing or Detroit as likely to be the scene OF
the trial.
John Bell Of Sebewa, Ionia county, came
to Ionia in December, 1885, and became in
toxicated. While driving homo he fell
out of his wagon and was killed. The
widow has brought suit against the saloon
keeper who furnished the liquor and his
bondsmen. The case came for trial and the
jury returned verdict for the plaintiff
for 81 500.
IL Detroit gets a new public building it
will be the only city in Michigan SO
favored.
James N. French,an East Tawas pioneer,
A dead.